Free Transformers 3 movie... streaming or downloaded?

[Moviecouple]

The Transformers: Dark Of The Moon film that you get free with the Nexus 7... is it only for streaming or can it be downloaded to the device itself?

I ask because even though I am on a very fast wifi connection, I notice small little hiccups in the playback.

 

[Ravynmagi]

Click on the pin in the corner and that downloads the movie.

 

[Jeremy8000]

I ask because even though I am on a very fast wifi connection, I notice small little hiccups in the playback.

You really shouldn't be having any issues with a fast connection... I watched part of it with minimal issue on a 3g hotspot which peaks out at about 1.5Mbps.

 

[Moviecouple]

The problem isn't too bad. Looks like it skips a frame or two every 10 minutes or so.

It has to be related to the way it streams from Google Play... because a film I loaded from my collection onto the device doesn't do it and streaming from my server doesn't do it either. So it isn't the device itself.

 

[enjoylife949]

The problem isn't too bad. Looks like it skips a frame or two every 10 minutes or so.

This movie has a couple of places where the screen goes black for a second. That is part of the movie and I saw this happen when watching a Blu-Ray disk with my HDTV. I could also understand if network congestion caused what you are talking about.

 

[mysterygirl]

Hmm...I'm watching the movie now. Probably 45 minutes into it, streaming with no problems thus far. I would imagine streaming video quality will be based on a lot of different factors--Google servers, traffic, internet connection, etc.

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[Papadakis]

I started watching it streaming but it would hang every 10 mins or so, so I just downloaded it, watched it, and deleted it

 

[cusinndzl]

The movie also showed up in my YouTube account under purchases, but I can't stream it since it says my device isn't supported. I have the latest version of Flash and Chrome so I don't understand why it won't stream on YouTube. I guess Google wants users to only stream it on their tablet.

 

[Elpod]

The Transformers 3 movie can be downloaded and watched but the problem is removing it from your nexus 7 device when finished. You cannot find the movie on your device so you can't remove it yourself. When you tell the software to remove it it makes it unaccessible, but you will still be missing 3 gigs of space. I called google and they are still researching this problem. My advice is don't download until google gives us a way to remove it.

 

[dralezero]

I started watching it streaming but it would hang every 10 mins or so, so I just downloaded it, watched it, and deleted it

It might be streaming in chunks. YouTube is doing chunks now as well. In firebug on PC it downloads 2.3mb at a time instead of one big file like it used to be.

The Transformers 3 movie can be downloaded and watched but the problem is removing it from your nexus 7 device when finished.

Have you tried clear cache on Google Movies app? I had to do that for music. I wonder if the cache clears itself when needs to make room?

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[adamfrayne182]

Do you guys know if you download the movie it can be extracted and put on the computer? Just curious.

 

[MantisToboggan]

The Transformers 3 movie can be downloaded and watched but the problem is removing it from your nexus 7 device when finished. You cannot find the movie on your device so you can't remove it yourself. When you tell the software to remove it it makes it unaccessible, but you will still be missing 3 gigs of space. I called google and they are still researching this problem. My advice is don't download until google gives us a way to remove it.

Wow, this is worrying me because I just downloaded the movie yesterday and my plan was to delete it when I was done watching it at Jury Duty tomorrow. I only have the 8GB model so I was planning on deleting movies when I was thru with them, but this is worrying me... Please update if you find anything new out, thanks!

 

[shafferb]

I just tried this on mine, with the same movie. Before "unpinning" it I checked the resources used by the Google Movie app, and it was showing data usage of 1.3Gb.


I unpinned it, and checked again, and it showed Zero memory used.

I also checked my main system memory prior to unpinning, and after, and it showed a 1.3Gb increase in available memory storage.

I went back into Movies and "pinned" it again, thinking maybe it was just "hidden" or marked as "available" or some such thing and pinning it again would just bring it back, but no dice, it just started downloading it again.

So it does look like when you get rid of something, it is indeed gone.

Hope this helps. Can't understand what kind of issue Elpod is having, as the movie is "only" 1.3Gb to begin with.

 

[DirkBelig]

Ummm, both of my Nexuses (Nexi?) came with the movie pre-loaded on them or I thought it was. I was able to jump around at will to various parts, though now I'm starting to wonder because the first one was at home where I have a very fast connection and the replacement was at my g/f's where she just has DSL and I was having all sorts of problems with freezes, etc. I ended up re-downloading it. Or was I only downloading it the first time? Huh?

 

[dralezero]

Do you guys know if you download the movie it can be extracted and put on the computer? Just curious.

You can play the movies off the Google play website. But for offline, I don't know.

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[Elpod]

I have tried clearing "cache" on the Google Movies & TV Show app (google tech said this should work, but it didn't). I tried the "pin" again, downloading and removing again. Still waiting for google to get back to me on this issue. It's scary because it seems that you cannot purchase any Movies or TV Shows from Google because it will hide it in you device and you can never remove it! (as of 08/15/12).

 

[MantisToboggan]

So here is my experience:

I downloaded the movie to the device on the first day I had it.

Earlier today I checked the free storage space and it was 2.35GB.

I went to Google Play Movies and clicked on the pushpin on the movie, a pop-up said that the movie was downloaded and asked if I wanted to remove it, I clicked Remove.

I then went and checked the storage again and it is at 5.18GB.

I didn't have the clear any cache or do anything other than click Remove. It freed up about 2.83GB.

 

[dralezero]

I touch hold on the movie in my "movies "library" and hit remove from device. Now it is not available on my device at all for streaming. No longer listed. If I want it again I go to Google play app and download. I didn't check space though


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[Dannydeez82]

Just so you guys know, if you downloaded the movie from the play store it is saved in the following location:
/sdcard/Android/Data/com.google.android.videos/files/Movies/ZGFubnlk(just click the folder with the really long name)/ Then its the only file in there which is .wvm format

The only problem I have is I cant get it to play for more than like 10 seconds when I click it. It gives me options and I have tried all of them: ES Media Player, MX Player, Video Player, VPlayer. They all freeze a few seconds into the movie.
Does anyone know of a player that will actually work?

 

[guinnkevinr]

Hey guys just bought the nexus 7 and can't find the movie anywhere on the device or even in the play store. Any tips on how to get it?

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